Lin Tokura

Winner of the Young Talents Gold Prize at the 2019 Paris International Music Competition, Lin Tokura, age 11, recently Second Prize at the 2022 International Arthur Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists in Belgium. She has also been a top prize winner at the Crescendo International Music Competition, the London Festival Competition where she received the Judges Best Performance Award and the New York Concert Festival International Competition where she received the Grand Prix and was named International Soloist of the Year 2019. She has performed recitals several times in Carnegie Hall, Bösendorfer Hall Mozarthaus, and Amadeus International School while on an International Concert Scholarship Tour to Vienna. She was invited to participate in the Cremona Music Festival in Italy as the youngest ambassador from Japan when she was 5. After beginning violin at age 2.5 in Tokyo, she moved to the Seattle area and continued her studies with Mihoko Hirata. Lin joined the Coleman Studio as a student of Jan Coleman in 2020. Since joining the studio, she has won several local competitions including Simon-Fiset and PAFE. Lin currently studies with Simon James, a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In addition to music, Lin is a voracious reader, a prize winner in the Japan National Calligraphy Competitions, and a member of the award-winning Junior Hip Hop Team.